Mature but still growing economies such as the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand will offer attractive real estate investment and development prospects once the recession subsides, according to a new publication from the Urban Land Institute entitled 'Global Demographics 2009: Shaping Real Estate's Future'. The report also notes that Europe is the one region of the world that will experience population declines between now and 2030, while the greatest population increases worldwide over the next 40 years will occur in China, India and the US.